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Picked up an action had it built into a .358.

That’s sweet! Been lusting for a .358 lever in either a 99 or BLR. The 99’s keep getting fewer and farther between, and really pricey. You don’t see the BLR’s every day either. Have a .308 99 I could turn into one, but nahhh. Waiting for the right one to hit me in the nose. Seems like such a great cartridge for big woods whitetail and black bear… odd to me it’s so obscure. Beauty you have there.

How does it shoot and what did the whole project cost?

Just saw your initial post. Looks like 2 g well spent to me. Enjoy that.

I had a BLR 358 - an early model. I sold it with a couple magazines for $600 to a friend. He hasn’t shot it, bought for a fight against inflation I suppose. Those early BLR’s had issues with their magazines.
I re-barreled a 700 to 358 and I love it.

I've looked foor a 99 in 308 to rebore to 358, never found one cheap enough as I already have a BA 35 Whelen and a 99 in 375 Win. My big woods whitetail hunting is winding down as the boys I hunted with are getting older and it is a 1500 mile run to get to the big woods on northern WI. I'm now having to live with hotsteppers for these desert critters.

Nice job on your 358.

You've been talking about this for almost a year. It's an early action, right? It handles a belly full of cartridges and feeds fine?

I have a pair, not much recoil, kills pigs real fine.

Yes it was actually a 250 action and I’d been informed that they couldn’t be converted to the larger cartridge and actually called my smith about it but when I approached him on it he told me it had all ready been done.
I’ll find out tomorrow or next couple of days as he planning on shooting it in the next couple of days. He only had three rounds but I sent him a box of Hornady 200 grainers and a box of Buffalo bore 225 grain.

Nice rifles. Mine isn’t factory obviously but I won’t have any more funds in it than I would of had trying to buy a decent shaped .358, at least for the prices being asked or I got darn lucky.

Firearm: 358
Barrel Twist 1 in 12.000 in Twist Dir. Right
Sight Height 1.500 in
Ammo: Hornady 200gr SP
Bullet Diameter 0.358 Bullet Weight 200.00 gr

Muzzle Vel. 2600.00 fps
Drag Model G1 Powder Temp 0 °F
BC(s) 0.28200.00fps
Zero Range 50 yd Zero Height 1.000 in

Density Alt. 969.00 ft Temp 42.44 °F

Yards, POI, FPS, Ft-lb

400 -36.8 1484.3 978.3
350 -23. 1600.7 1137.8
300 -13.0 1725.4 1321.9
250 -5.8 1855.9 1529.5
200 -1.1 1993.1 1764.1
150 1.4 2136.7 2027.4
100 2.1. 2284.4 2317.4
50 1.0 2438.5 2640.6
0 -1.5 2600.0 3001.9

Came out looking nice, like an early uncheckered EG. I'd be curious how many hours it took to convert the receiver, whether he modified the existing rotor, etc.